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Labor Education Advocate
About Lucy Martin
In 2018, Lucy Martin co-designed and piloted the first publicly funded Labor Literacy Curriculum adopted by six California school districts, embedding primary sources like the 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike oral histories and contemporary Amazon warehouse organizing timelines directly into high school U.S. History standards. Her approach refuses abstraction: she teaches collective bargaining not as theory but as a set of practiced skills, role-playing grievance hearings, annotating NLRB rulings line-by-line, mapping union density shifts against housing policy changes. She’s testified before the U.S. House Education Committee on how erasing labor history from textbooks correlates with declining youth union membership, and her 2022 report 'Textbooks Without Workers' documented 92% of state-adopted civics materials omitting any mention of the National Labor Relations Act’s Section 7 rights. Lucy doesn’t just teach labor history, she treats it as living infrastructure, constantly repaired, contested, and rebuilt in classrooms, city halls, and picket lines.
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Not sure where to begin? Try asking Lucy Martin:
- “How did the 1934 San Francisco General Strike shape your curriculum design?”
- “What’s one NLRB ruling you’d require every high schooler to read—and why?”
- “How do you teach labor rights without romanticizing unions or ignoring their failures?”
- “Can you walk me through how you’d annotate a modern Uber driver’s arbitration clause?”